American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) relief efforts in Germany following World War 1 during a time of food shortages and economic devastation. Virchow hospital building seen. Children form a ring and sing in garden. Lyrics to the song they sing are shown on a printed page. It is a song of thanks to the Quaker people who provide them assistance. Two children seen sitting on a bed. Nursing and expectant mothers are seen sewing to earn income. Children sit on a table to eat, in a Kindergarten school.
German Declaration of War against the United States in World War II. Nazi flags hung from building in Germany. German troops lined on roadside. German officers march. A huge crowd cheers. Adolf Hitler seated with German legislators in the Reichstag. Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler gives a speech declaring operations against England, the Soviet Union, and the United States. German leaders seated near him.
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in Germany during a period between assignments in World War II. Rommel, who was a good friend of Propaganda Minister, Joseph Paul Goebbels, visits with Magda Goebbels and the Goebel's children in the backyard of their estate. Rommel walks around the estate holding hands with some of the Goebbels children, as Mrs. Goebbels carries her youngest. They talk outside the house. A Nazi officer holds one of the Goebbels girls. The children play on a slide. Field Marshal Rommel and Mrs. Goebbels stand near the slide.
Refugees from East Berlin step down from a tram in West Berlin. They walk with their luggage. Refugees stand in line as many others join them outside the border station, fleeing East Berlin while they still can.
Crowd and President Kennedy on the stage during his West Berlin visit. A cannon salute to President John F Kennedy and scene of man wearing space suit. President review photos of his current visit. President Kennedy, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt in front of microphone. President boards flight and the plane takes off. Aerial view of West Berlin, showing the Siegessäule (Victory Column) and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, and the voice of John F Kennedy repeats. 26 June 1963.
Emile Berliner and his son Henry Berliner, and other people gather around the helicopter. Henry Berliner in Berliner helicopter taking off in short flights and re-landing. This is one of the first machines which fly forward after rising vertically. Several views of test flying of the Berliner helicopter.
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